syria's opposition forms a new political body to help the rebels and their western supporters topple president saddam this image criticism that the foreign based coalition has little support within syria itself. meanwhile fears are mounting in the conflict torn country that rebel fighters are increasingly targeting civilians over their allegiance to the syrian government. and as the greeks simmer over even more cuts portugal there is an angry reception for the german chancellor seen as the main force behind europe's austerity drive.

world news live from our moscow headquarters you're watching r t with me lucy catherine of well syria's fractured opposition has managed to form a new political body in order to help the rebels as well as their foreign backers oust president bashar al assad the deal signed in the qatari capital in doha follows pressure from western and arab supporters who are also waiting to see the formation of syria's new government in exile falsely or reports from the region this comes off to days of political wrangling amongst the various syrian opposition forces they have been under pressure from both the united states as well as arab governments to form this unified body it is a sixty member assembly but it really brings together a wide array of people and organizations with very different affiliations it is essentially a patchwork organization amongst the new leaders are sunni muslims as well as a christian former communist and among the rebel fighters are those coming from

very different if make and when you're just backgrounds with many asking the question whether or not that infighting and whether or not those ethnic and political do. since as can be put aside the goal is really to try and organize a beta flow of funds and also potentially to send weapons to the syrian opposition within the country and we're already hearing from one opposition members that country such as bush and france and germany the united states qatar and saudi arabia have pledged weapons to the syrian opposition and this is increasing concern in the international community that what we could see happening now in syria is merely a repeat of what we saw happening in libya not so long ago at that time the opposition called for itself to be recognized as the so just from a government of libya and we're hearing the same kind of core coming amongst the syrian opposition today what happened in libya was once that recognition came from the international community it led to foreign intervention so now we're hearing bush and has pledged that hundreds of u.k.

soldiers will be deployed to syria if the situation there worsens so increasing concern that the situation in syria well ultimately be a repeat of libya. party's policy or there will some analysts are questioning just how much the newly formed rebel coalition is taking into account the interests of syrians themselves the only reason we have almost tissue quality agreement was the threats and the jury and the political pressure that was put on them they had to do something this weekend do you think the west is going to show up and qatar and rages show no result no how long it will last we don't know it's twenty one months in libya you recall and there are factions still armed groups together and they have the benefit of the valves and bombing runs by nato so i i think that the other problem is not the groups themselves which are very disparate but the lack of support. now the syrian people and what they have lost in terms of

respect through a lot of crimes they've committed a lot of assassinations and massacres so i think. this is a last ditch effort in a sense to try to put together viable opposition and only time will tell if it's going to stick together. as western and arab nations look for ways to offer more support for the rebels fears are mounting within the country that anti assad fighters are increasingly targeting civilians over their allegiance to the current regime. has more. it was described as conflict or uprising at the beginning no downside left what it actually is violence calling slaughter the bloodshed we have a new kind of. carry them through proxies the deaths number in the tens of thousands and it's not just armed men in gaijin in battle from both sides it's also

ordinary citizens including the deliberate murder of civilians by rebels this is muhammad their affair i met and filmed him during my last trip to damascus this summer a prominent actor while he was now his dad killed because of his views. have syrian half of this teen in mohammad was an ardent supporter of the regime and an active campaign against those he believed were terrorists and that it seems was reason enough to murder him not that i saw his body at a hospital who could make this to him but the f.s.a. syrian rebels admitted killing mohammad he was shot dead with three bullets and. my son became the first actor a man of our to sacrifice his life on the altar of our motherland i appeal to these murderers what you did is not fair he was not guilty why should those who love the motherland be executed my son loved his mother went and he always helped people and

was working a lot but none of this mattered to his killers mohamed was not the first public figure to be targeted like these people in this least are sentenced to death by members of the syrian opposition doctors pilots actors engineers are among them and this like mark means the clock is ticking but what we have here is a kind of you know military. terror. policy if you are cooperating with this government you are sort of say a dead man walking and that is of course some kind of international warfare which no civilized nation. puter. after the death of muhammad that i fear his father says his proud his son became a matar and that he believes his death was not for nothing but with no end to the murders inside eventually he may just become another an on a myspace in the growing statistics. on.

one another sign of a conflict spreading beyond syria neighboring israel has fired warning shots over the border after a syrian mortar shell hit an israeli base there is the first time that israeli forces have fired into syrian territory in more than forty years more on that for you on our team dot com. well another year of pain is looming ahead for greece as the country's parliament approves an austerity budget which will force more biting cuts upon an already struggling population it's been a precondition from international lenders who've been delaying another bailout cash injection for months now thousands of greeks have gathered outside of parliaments

to voice their opposition to next year's budget john the long from the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris says that the greeks government's hands are tied by the e.u. project. we can see that the kinds of measures that have been imposed on greece for more than two years because this crisis has been going on for a very long time these measures are actually making the situation worse but our economy is in a free for it's been in three for now for over a year and the fact is that the greek political class like the rest of the euro political class in a sense i think prisoner of its own ideology it's the prisoner of the european ideology and this ideology exerts such a power over people that they are prepared to do things which by any rational measure obviously counterproductive in order to preserve the european project of the euro in particular they are determined to do everything to keep the single

currency intact even to destroy their own country to send them a parliament up over fifty percent to put the economy into a massive recession and so on. rival protests are expected in the portuguese capital where the german chancellor is anticipated to be later and the state of the country's parliament recently approved spending cuts and tax hikes which promoted the biggest protests in years artists are first reports from the. german chancellor angela merkel is making her first state visit to portugal since the debt crisis began she's going to be meeting with the country's prime minister today if the german chancellor is expecting a warm welcome today she might want to think again at the same time as meetings take place we're going to be expecting protests to be taking place across the country and certainly in lisbon as they straight to start see measures of this and we seen an increase in the amount to say she laments an unhappiness with those

measures now portugal's it was hoped would become the southern european success story in a sharp contrast to what we seeing taking place in countries like greece but the reality of the situation is that portugal's facing much of the same is she's a rise in unemployment severe hits to the public sector all of this has really added to the public on happiness it's just approved the highest spending cuts ever in portugal's modern history and that's certainly going to have an impact this sort of cools the country already struggling in the midst of recession there is great unhappiness as well it was seen as the closeness between portugal's government and the german chancellor is the souls of a lot of talk is the boss of a lot of people's jokes you see it in the graffiti you see it later today in the protest signs the prime minister it's felt by a lot of people sometimes even the submissive to angola merkel and people are

really calling for the country for their own government take charge of this not to be led by the german chancellor not just to be led by persons but to be acting in the country's own interest in going to see these protests maybe. they the protesters say they're going to hang black cloth the monuments are not really echoing the black good mood that we've seen across much of europe as the crisis continues well don't go away and more for you this hour a personal matter turning into a matter of national six going to bring you an expert opinion on whether there's more to say director david petraeus is resignation than just an extramarital affair but more and more highly skilled brits are turning their backs on their second winner pastors abroad details on that and more after a short break. on

this is day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of story hundred sheep in the mountains and pains of. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but you just unfamiliar dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. has just made camp at their winter farm stage setting up his ute judicial to fenian round tent made of diskin. back amongst his family as his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celcius says there are still there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here. so most of us simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's

half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and it's really fit there could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all the halts they hurt the cattle. with people leaving them coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of the herd and more attractive than promising largest subsidies for countries and lie still and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day put out to ensure the hoda get the highest fairer price i asked sympathizes with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life they in their publics capital. but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pasta way of life now looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm but more time on his hands he says matter of fact we can start to look for a new wife. wealthy

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projects free media dog r.t. dot com. welcome back you're watching our team well the resignation of the director of the cia and one of america's most decorated military commanders david petraeus has certainly dominated headlines as well as air time and american press but while his extramarital affair has been in the spotlight the real cause for concern seems to be the ramifications for the country as a whole well if not more about this with james for better care of the poor but report and joins us live from japan sir thank you for being with us of course decisions made by the cia certainly resonate all across the globe what are the implications of his resignation you think for the u.s. . well that's a good question and one that hasn't been asked enough in this scandal if the old adage is true that nothing in politics happens by accident then i think that's nowhere more true than it is when it comes to these political sex scandals as we've

seen over the years and for example with the deborah jeane palfrey d.c. madam case where the her client list was was covered up by her murder or suicide depending on which side of that debate you come down on for eliot spitzer pending an editorial in the washington post that the washington post and being exposing this sub aren't prime mortgage crisis and then being caught up in his own sex scandal literally just hours later after the leak of f.b.i. wiretap information to the new york times and so the question has to be why you do scandal as a virgin now why is it it is embroiled in general petraeus and what information did he have that would potentially have been interesting to people who would have been interested in bringing him down and this is actually we can start to see some of the pieces of this puzzle emerging as it becomes clearer now that that there is the indication that he will not be testifying in the upcoming congressional hearings into what happened in benghazi in september and because of that some key

information about what happened in benghazi might not come to light including some interesting information that just emerged in recently that in fact last month general petraeus is the lead. mistress this of broadwell was going around giving speeches about how the cia annex in in benghazi was being used as a secret prison which is why it was why it was attacked in september so there are some very very big things that are emerging right now and it looks like the operation to take down but petraeus at this particular moment might be motivated by some of those backdoor political dealings rather than the sex scandal that is that supposedly made out to be i'm just curious is that this operation to remove petraeus who do you think is behind this do you blame the obama administration or are there other forces there. i think it would be too early to speculate on that and again it depends how the the events play out to see whether or not there will be more information coming out on that again it depends for example if he does end

up testifying at the benghazi hearings it also depends for example who is ultimately selected to replace him and there are some interesting characters in the running for that john brennan's name has been thrown around and he was the c.e.o. of a company called analysis back in two thousand and eight when one of the contractors one of the people working for analysis inc was a contractor for the state department who accessed president obama's passport records illegally and then one of the key witnesses in that case ended up being murdered in cold blood in that case you got covered up entirely so so there are some interesting connections around some of the people who may be slotted to replace betrayal well of course up a trance has made his name for the counter insurgency strategy in both iraq and afghanistan and i really want to focus on afghanistan here because of course the the war even though it's supposed to be ramping up is really not we're seeing casualties all the time there the situation on the ground is not getting better at

all and in fact flying there this evening myself what do you think that this scandal will this scandal in any way affect the situation there and are there any implications for afghanistan. i don't think there are. any immediate ramifications for this because of patrice's role as cia director for the last year and a half i think that's sort of overshadowed his role there in afghanistan but certainly the question of what's going to happen in two thousand and fourteen whether the will pull out of afghanistan as scheduled or not is still very much up in the air and and again that i don't think that that's really going to come to an conclusion anytime soon and i'm not sure exactly how that's going to be affected by patrice's resignation although certainly the cia and its implications in the drone strikes in pakistan played a very key role in what's happening with the entire afghanistan security situation so we'll see if the change in leadership at the cia provokes any change whatsoever in the cia drone strikes and of course petraeus was credited with expanding the drone strike program in yemen as well james corbet the editor of the an independent

website report thank you so much thank you. rival we're also covering this scandal on the internet just head to our web site art com and you can learn what sparked the investigation against the now resigned cia boss and whether the indiscretions were just washed up in order to aid the obama campaign plus. demonstrate and donate talked to by activists question plan to relieve hundreds of americans of their debt you can head over to our team dot com to get all those details and lots more more more for you. well britain could soon be suffering from a shortage of skilled workers that's according to recent research which shows a number of u.k. professionals are seeking better lives overseas and that number has agreed to

sharply in the past two decades artist pauline boyko looks into what has been fueling this brain training. london one of the global financial sense says it was even voted the best place to visit on the won it last year but it looks like fewer people want to actually live in britain the u.k. home office has just released a report that says that an increasing number of executives scientists and academics are choosing to leave britain last year alone some one hundred fifty thousand cases this isn't emigrates a day of the season and now some five million brits live abroad and don't blame the unpredictable weather or the local cuisine experts now think that it's the high rates of taxation and the cost of living that could drive even more brits to move abroad people with the motor of the economy are people with

a lot of property but perhaps with an education perhaps with ambition as well we need to keep them in the country you have to face a life of living in london on a very small gross wage maybe even smaller by taxation to a network that's the bit which we fail as a country and perhaps some sort of system of graduated tax allowances might help us cope perhaps most alarming for the politicians who office findings that the majority of the people that opt out of the think you take rat race do so also in the overall lifestyle choice signalling and see discontent with living standards here in britain that's not the answer. we still in government to slow things for me consider moving abroad to avoid big government slacking off and taking away the good things from the people that owning a little bit more even though it's through hard work and dedication over here is that you work until you drop that you don't want to reward us so what's the point

of continuing companies are already complaining that they find it hard to find highly skilled professionals. foreigners to walk in the u.k. because of the u.k. government's count on migration in order to cut immigration into the country now the growing number of young ambitious brits talking bad i might leave the british government wondering where all the professionals have gone. or i was going to look at some of the other international news headlines making news right now a b.b.c. news director and her deputy have stepped aside and shortly after chairman chris patten called for a radical overhaul of the corporation the move follows the resignation of director general george after one of the network's top news programs wrongly lengths a former politician to child abuse allegations of course the departures not to be that difficult for the man and thoughtful as such you receive a reported two million dollars severance package for his fifty four days on the job and i wish we often make that much. more clashes have broken out of the warsaw

after twenty thousand people marched through the polish capital on independence day violence erupted after a right wing nationalist started shouting anti-government slogans and threw fireworks and bricks that the police security forces had used rubber bullets and tear gas as well as batal and to bring the situation under control and trying to disperse the crowd at these two police officers were injured on with several protesters being detained. well coming up almost thirty years ago india suffered the worst industrial disaster in its history when poisonous gas had leaked from the you're your own union car by plans apologise for that are you special report takes a look at the effects of that catastrophe and how they're still being felt by the people on the ground today.

carol. and once again it's independence from the rest of spain locals feel that madrid texas of catalonia economic success is a way putting the region into debt trust me only to have it all taxed away is very aggravating i can see why people are frustrated but the people who want independence have a very odd slogan catalonia a new european state so let me get this straight you want independence but you want to stay in the e.u. is that what you mean what exactly would that change that's not really gaining independence that shifting dependencies staying in the e.u. means you won't have control of your borders you'll still be on the euro see won't have your own currency you will be able to establish your trade standards those will be dictated to you by brussels and if you don't like the austerity measures from outsiders like in madrid then you might want have a conversation with the greeks because being an independent country in the e.u. won't save you from people messing with your finances all i'm saying is that being

truly independent means answer to no one not madrid not brussels but that's just my opinion. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. do we speak your language any film of the war not a day of. school music programs and documentaries and spanish more matters to you breaking news a little tonnage of angles kitten's stories. for you here. in

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meanwhile declare itself the sole representative of the victims and proceed to sort out the case for four hundred seventy million dollars which was so cheap the union carbide start went up by two dollars a share in the settlement was announced if you could not mean that it could be such a grew old sellout because the union government agreed to settle all boston present and future liabilities for a sum as small as four hundred seventy million dollars. people received as little as five hundred dollars but lifelong injuries and. unpunished. i believe whatever happened in the past we cannot change it but what is happening now is in our control it's been twenty seven years and the government shouldn't these do something like people should get clean water because the ground.